#lorriemoore — Public Fediverse posts
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On my radar: Dave Eggers’s cultural highlights https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/feb/10/on-my-radar-dave-eggerss-cultural-highlights #Artanddesign #LorrieMoore #Environment #DaveEggers #Television #TVcomedy #Walking #Culture #Fitness #Whales #Feist #Books #Music #Art
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The thingliness of Lorrie Moore's words. On the blog:
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"Life was unendurable, and yet everywhere it was endured." —Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs
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" 'Thanks, maybe later?' I said with the question mark our generation believed meant politeness but which baffled our parents." —Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs
#LorrieMoore #books #politeness #language #speech #communication
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"I was working on a laugh that was more than my usual pleased grunt, but all I had right now was a kind of blast that culminated in a bleat." —Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs
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"Her features had fallen but I saw her lift them again, one by one, the way one lifts light porch furniture after a wind."
—Lorrie Moore, "A Gate at the Stairs". Every page has such treats